Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-16
Mr.! SHERMAN'S BOOM.
HE TALKS ON VARIETY OF SUBJECTS AND
{ WAVES THE SHIRT
Quts SaVagsly BY Way Of Keeping His Hand In
An Attempt to Put Salt on The Tail Of the
Prohibition Vo!e Dissertation on
Buckeye Polifcs.

tue ONO campaign to-day at a large meet
ing held at the Fair Grounds. IL the
course of his speech be said: we.ought
not 10 iDgore the claims of political orgsni.
zAtions who are protesting against both
the great national parties of our country,
cause they are comparatively few in
number and limited to a single object OF
principle. 1t is the right and duty OF any
body of American citizens to seek by asso
citation to accomplish any measure they
think will advance the public interests,
and often by their zeal they compel atten.
tion t1 ldst measures and reforms, but
usually succeed only in defeating the party
most in sympathy with them. This has
been the effect and still is the tendency OF
THE PROHIBITION PARTY.
No fair man will dispute the fact that
the Republican party has done more, and,
from its composition and tendencies, will
do more for the cause of temperance than
the Democratic party will or can do. The
Dow law, placed by it on the statutes OF
Ohio, is more effective measure in re-
straining and lessening the evils that flow
from the liquor traffic than any other
measure proposed by either party. The
leaders of the Prohibition party know full
we'll that every measure tending TO pro-
mote Prohibition or the restraint of the
restraint OF the liquor traffice has been and
will be opposed by the Democratic party, q
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has been given to it by those who sell, and
by those who consume spirituour liquors
And yet our Prohibition friends aim all
their shafts at the Republican party and
act as allies of the Democratic party.
/ know and respect the strong and
growing feeling in Ohio against intemper-
ance and the saloon influence, and believe
the Republicans of Ohio and of Clinton
county will Cheerfully aid in passing and
enforcing all just and reasonable measures
against these evils, but this can best be
done through existing parties. If temper
ance men would only make their influence
felt as members of both the great parties,
for both Of these parties contain good tenn
perance men, the great reform they pro-
pose would be more advanced than by
separate action for extreme measures,
which experience shows cannot and will
not be enforced in large cities and towns.
AND so OF THE LABOR PARMY.
II there is any Just and practical measure
of public policy that will tend to advance
the interests of labor or laboring men, the
Republican party is now and has been
ready and willing to adopt it. Every
measure in their interest in the statutes of
Ohio and of the United States has been
put there by tine Republican party. Fhe
homestead law, the eight hour law, the
contract emigrant law and that great sys-
TEN of public policy 10 protect their labor
from undue competition by protective du-
ties OIL imported goods, have been the work
of the Republican party The statute books
of Ohio are full of laws 70 protect their
homes ard household effects, TO guard
them in the mines and workshops, to Sc
cure their wages by lien and preference
laws, to restrain the employment of in
fants and women. The last Republican
Legislature passed many laws for their
benefit. ! ask them 10 point out when
and where the Republican party has
failed to do justice to labOring men.
Our long struggle for thirty years
has been TO secure every mans lib
erty and equal rights. 1t is only
when Socialists seek TO strike down
all the rules of social order which dignity
the homes of poor and rich alike, or when
Communists seek to enjoy the property
acquired by the honest labor of Others, or
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institutions of modern Civili5 atiOn, that
the Republican party, aI the conservative
party Of the country, reSl5ts their demands.
These men are criminals and not laborers.
They dishonor the word lahOTer, who only
seeks the free aud full enjoyment of the
fruits of his labor, and will neither rob nor
steal his neighbor's property.
And 80, fellow citizens, | might review
other parties, societies and organizations
There is no objection for any number Of
men to associate for any lawful purpose in
any company or association. The modern
world is full o sueh Their name is infinite
As rule they are useful and only bad when
their purpose is bad. But after 9ll there
can only be two great political Organiza.
tions in free cOun ~, though, as in France
and Euglaud, there may b. wings and
shades OF opinion within party as there
are divisions and hgigaaes in a great army
REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PARTIES
naturally divide the people of the United
States into opposing forces Most men
will be satisfied to belong to one or the
other, though not agreeias eGtireiy with
either. And these parties are not to he
tested by what they promise, but by what
they do; and not entirely by what they
have done, but what they will do. And
it is by these tests the Republican party
is always willing to be tried. 1t is not
afraid of its past, for that includes the
most successful and honorable achieve
ments in peace or in war thai it mas been
the good foIt4ne Of any party to accom-
plisb, What man among our Democratic
friends would dare compare the acts, say
ings aud doings Of the Democratic party,
is N0rthern and Southern wings, for the
last thirty years, with the acts, sayings
aud doings Of the Republican party.
WAVING THE OLD SHIRT.
It is from such comparison they instinc
lively shrink. IL was tor making that COM
parison at Springfield, Ill, the home OF
Abraham Lincoln, that ! was arrsigled By
our Democratic friends North and South Tor
waving the bloody shirt. 1t was a
bloody shirt 1t is a shameless record.
The fight f. slavery, the rebel
lion and its fearful losses, the
course of the copperheads in the North.
the riots in New York City, the Knights OF
the Golden Circle in Indiana, the fearful
crimes Of the Ku Klnx Klans, the cheating
General Grant out of the vote in New Io!k
in 1858, the Mississippi plan, the Solid
South, one million of legal voters deprived
of their franchise wherever their votes
would count, the election of Cleveland u
was bloUdy shirt. But did any mar
ansWeS this arEaigunents BId I state one
single thing as fact that was not trn.'
But some say let by-gones be by-gones. 80
be it. Certain tenderfeet are afraid
might hurt some ones feelings that VIZ
should Danish this word rebel" from ou
vocabulary; that we should take the new
South with Republicans, white and black
counted out and say nothing We mus
become accustomed to the restoration o
the Oio regime as Cromvel!'s R09nd6eaai
became accustomed TO the court OF hint
Charles. We must surrender our cap
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